​Thanks to everyone for helping us reach 1000 subscribers on YouTube!  That's pretty cool!

Amazing work by Speed of Sound, LLC. Check them out on Facebook and Instagram. They have some really awesome custom-fab stuff! Thanks for sharing!

I've been meaning to do this for a while:  It's a short, fast-paced, 1-minute overview video of the primary features of the Chippernut Shift Light. 

YouTube Videos featured
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdYh19ZW_Eo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0jbQpND3PA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNcnMWLXaT0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzVd5WT2xg0&t=110s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHLVCtCO7UI

Music Credit: 
"Apex" by Alexander Nakarada (www.serpentsoundstudios.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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Just saw this in the forums.  Nicely done!!  The whole video is worth a watch. Quite a clever implementation. 

 Hi Everyone! I updated the Tech Pages for legacy shift lights and the RPM simulator. Check it out!  Let me know if I missed anything. 

A recent poll I posted in this blog has shown the overwhelming majority of poll-respondents do find the forums valuable. My website visitor statistics corroborate these results. The forums continue to see the largest "views" among all other pages.  That being said, I'm actively looking for a new forum provider. Unfortunately, this means it's quite likely the majority of the data in the forums may be lost. :-(  Not cool.  I'll continue to work on this and keep you updated. I'll do my best to retain the data, but I wont' make any promises. 

I was quite impressed with the construction of the topper. The decorative front resembled a stained glass window (but with plastic). The soldered metal frame was fastened to a sub-frame with 3 bolts. This sub-frame held a set of incandescent light bulbs and winds into a coil for tree attachment. I managed to strap 60 WS2812B LEDs to the sub-frame and a Nano. Powered off a 3A 5V cell-phone charger, the entire setup took mere minutes to wire-up.  I loaded a modified version of my under-cabinet lighting "Mood Lamp" code.  Overall, for about 2 hours of modification, I'm quite happy with it.  I'm already thinking about different modes, brightness levels, etc. but I'll probably wait until next year before I try something new. 

Stay Tuned!
​- jon

I noticed a minor issue when more than 25 LEDs were programmed in the menu. The system would slow and become a bit jumpy. I further optimized the code, removed some redundancy, and the system gained a significant amount of performance in RPM pickup resolution. I've posted V3.11 code to the TECH pages. All shift light kits shipped on or after 9/28/2017 will have the new code automatically uploaded. 

Stay tuned
- jon